Records of the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Gloucester Fishery Station on Ten Pound Island, 1898-1946.

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United States. Bureau of Fisheries. Records of the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Gloucester Fishery Station on Ten Pound Island, 1898-1946.

Records of the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Gloucester Fishery Station on Ten Pound Island, 1898-1946.

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Copies of correspondence from master or first mate of schooner Grampus to various ports concerning payroll, hiring, lodging for men on fishing boats, reports of lobster taking and eggs (numbers and prices), status of stock and other fish catches, abundance or scarcity, etc.; annual reports in booklet form with general description of permanent station property including buildings and land; detailed quarterly inventories of all articles such as equipment and supplies including costs, on hand, received, or expended, and remarks; report titled Brief to the Committee for Reciprocity Information concerning Tariff Act 1930 by Gloucester Fisheries Association concerning the effect of Canadian fisheries trade on North East fisheries and decrease in stocks and increased demand for fisheries products (1946); and correspondence between Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Labor, and Gloucester Fishery Station concerning payroll, bills from local suppliers, status of fish stocks in local areas, expense sheets, fish and egg stock reports, amount of lobster received at main ports, and 1938 foreman's report on labor and construction of wharves (1903-1938).

10 file folders.

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